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<p>A bacterial biofilm consists up to 80% of amyloid nanowires. These nanowires are often called curlis and they are made from a protein monomer called <b>CsgA</b>. Hundreds and thousands of these monomers aggregate to a form a nanowire of up to several micrometers in length. The curli nucleation process to is induced by the membrane protein <b>CsgB</b>, which functions as a cellular anchor via which the nanowire attaches to the cell.</p>
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<br><p>A bacterial biofilm consists up to 80% of amyloid nanowires. These nanowires are often called curlis and they are made from a protein monomer called CsgA. Hundreds and thousands of these monomers aggregate to a form a nanowire of up to several micrometers in length. The curli nucleation process to is induced by the membrane protein <b>CsgB</b>, which functions as a cellular anchor via which the nanowire attaches to the cell.</p>
  
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<p><b>CsgC</b> has the function to prevent intracellular aggregation of CsgA and thus the formation of nanowires within the cell. Along with other proteins <br>(<b>CsgE, CsgF, CsgG</b>) CsgC is an important parameter in providing mature CsgA in the extracellular space in the most efficient way.</p>  
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<p>CsgC has the function to prevent intracellular aggregation of CsgA and thus the formation of nanowires within the cell. Along with other proteins CsgE, CsgF, CsgG. CsgC is an important parameter in providing mature CsgA in the extracellular space in the most efficient way.</p>  
 
<p>But which is the most efficient way?</p>
 
<p>But which is the most efficient way?</p>
  

Revision as of 23:04, 18 September 2015

High constitutive promoter + CsgC

CsgC is positively involved in the extracellular aggregation of CsgA into amyloid nanowires (curli assembly) in E.coli functioning as a chaperone for CsgA. Constructs with different promoter strenghts were designed to investigate the impact on nanowire self-assembly.

Sequence and Features


Assembly Compatibility:
  • 10
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[10]
  • 12
    INCOMPATIBLE WITH RFC[12]
    Illegal NheI site found at 7
    Illegal NheI site found at 30
  • 21
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[21]
  • 23
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[23]
  • 25
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[25]
  • 1000
    COMPATIBLE WITH RFC[1000]

A bacterial biofilm consists up to 80% of amyloid nanowires. These nanowires are often called curlis and they are made from a protein monomer called CsgA. Hundreds and thousands of these monomers aggregate to a form a nanowire of up to several micrometers in length. The curli nucleation process to is induced by the membrane protein CsgB, which functions as a cellular anchor via which the nanowire attaches to the cell.

CsgC has the function to prevent intracellular aggregation of CsgA and thus the formation of nanowires within the cell. Along with other proteins CsgE, CsgF, CsgG. CsgC is an important parameter in providing mature CsgA in the extracellular space in the most efficient way.

But which is the most efficient way?

By creating devices in which the protein CsgC is constitutively expressed at different levels using three different promoter strengths, we were hoping to identify the expression level corresponding to the strongest biofilm.

Relative promoter strengths [au]:

J23110: 844

J23118: 1429

J23100: 2547

This device was intended as a platform for the further addition of CsgE, CsgF and CsgG genes to investigate their impact on the amount of available, mature, extracellular CsgA.